Comment 7 for bug 873435

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Raphaƫl Hertzog (hertzog) wrote :

It means someone changed the status without justification. This is a dpkg bug but a rather minor one.

dpkg simplifies some versions like "0:1.0" into "1.0" or "1.0-" into "1.0" but it should not do that to avoid the kind of problem described here.